Nowadays USATU is a large scientific and educational, innovative and productive complex with well-known science schools that train qualified specialists at all levels: Bachelors, Specialists, Masters, Candidates and Doctors of Sciences. If you wish to enter USATU, you need to know the following laws and regulations of the Russian Federation:

The Regulations of Migration Registrational Execution of Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons in the Russian Federation

The Regulations of Procedure for Exit from the Russian Federation and Entry into the Russian Federation

The Regulations of Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation

Education

The academic year at USATU starts in September and ends in June (01.09-30.06). Bachelor's degree takes 4 academic years to complete; Specialist's degree takes 5 academic years to complete; Master's degree takes 2 academic years to complete; Doctor's degree takes 3 academic years to complete. All the faculties provide the full-time study. The applicants are enrolled according to the results of entrance examinations.

» Letter of Invitation

To get the letter of invitation please send (by fax or e-mail) the following documents to the international relations department:

An application form

A copy of the first two pages of your passport

A copy of your document of education with the list of subjects taken and grades received (translated into Russian or English).

Upon consideration of your documents you will be sent the letter of invitation. Please find out the details of getting the visa in the Russian Embassy in your country. You are recommended to send all the documents not later than 3 months before the beginning of the term.

» Concluding the agreement

To conclude the agreement to study at USATU you should pass exams and submit the following documents:

Filled application form

Academic documents, equivalent to the academic documents of Russian Federation, with the academic degree, the full list of learned subjects and full list of marks, with a notarized translation into Russian:

(Academic documents should be legalized. You can get the information about the procedure of legalization in the Russian embassy in the country where academic documents were issued.)

Transcript (the document showing the list of the subjects with results) with a notarized translation into Russian;

Certificate of equivalence of the education certificate which was got outside the Russian Federation;

Medical certificate confirming that you haven’t got contra-indications for study in the Russian Federation;

The AIDS test result confirming that you haven’t got AIDS, valid on the territory of Russian Federation;

Passport with visa and migration card;

6 photos of size 3x4 cm

The translation of the academic documents into Russian must be notarized in Russia or certified by the Russian Embassy or Consulate in the country where they were issued. The Faculty has the right to require additional information.

» Migration Card

The migration card is a document which contains the data about a foreign citizen arriving in the Russian Federation, and also serves for the control of his temporary sojourn in the Russian Federation.

Remember

In accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation you are obliged to register at your whereabouts within 7 days. The registration is made by the territorial interior bodies.

If it is necessary to prolong the term of your sojourn in Russia, you should apply to international relations department of USATU.

The entry to the territory of the Russian Federation without a visa is only allowed to citizens of the states with which the Russian Federation has entered into international agreements regarding mutual trips that stipulate entering and leaving the Russian Federation, moving within, passing through, and staying in the Russian Federation without a visa.

Initial duration of such citizen's stay in the Russian Federation may not exceed ninety days. After a contract on training is concluded the term of temporary stay is extended according to legislation of the Russian Federation for the time period during which the contract is valid but for no more than one year that starts on the date when the foreign citizen entered the Russian Federation. The decision on the extension of the temporary stay period is made by the territorial agency of the Federal Migration Service that serves the educational institution where the foreign citizen is trained.

Citizens of the countries for whom a visa is needed may enter into the Russian Federation upon submission of a regular student visa.

» Visa

A regular student visa may be issued to a foreign citizen on the basis of an invitation for entry to the Russian Federation filed in accordance with federal law. Visa is a permission issued by an authorized government agency to enter the Russian Federation or pass through the Russian Federation on the basis of a document identifying the person of a foreign citizen or a stateless person or recognized by the Russian Federation as such.

Each visa contains the following data: family name and given name (in Latin and Cyrillic characters), date of birth, gender, nationality (citizenship), number of the main document identifying the foreign citizen or the stateless person, visa issuance date, allowed duration of stay in the Russian Federation, number of the invitation to enter the Russian Federation, validity period of the visa, purpose of the trip, data about the inviting organization, and number of entries (one entry, two entries, multiple entries).

A foreign citizen with a one-entry visa may cross the state border of the Russian Federation once when entering the Russian Federation and once when leaving the Russian Federation.

A foreign citizen with a two-entry visa may enter the Russian Federation twice.

A foreign citizen with a multiple-entry visa may enter the Russian Federation several times (more than twice).

A regular student visa is issued for a time period of up to one year to a foreign citizen entering the Russian Federation for being trained in an educational institution.

Such visa is initially issued for a time period for up to 3 months and may be extended by the territorial agency of the Federal Migration Service serving the location where the foreign citizen resides. The extension period equals duration of the contract on training but may not exceed 1 year for each subsequent visa. The visa is extended in the form of issuance of a multiple visa.

The validity period of a visa may only be extended if the visa category, type, number of allowed entries, and the purposes of the foreign citizen's trip are not changed.

» Expenses

Your expenses can be estimated as follows:

Preparatory course in the Russian language and main subjects – about 2500$ per year